The purpose of this mail library is to provide a portable, efficient framework for different kinds of mail access: IMAP, SMTP, POP and NNTP.

It provides an API for C language.

• IMAP
• SMTP
• POP
• NNTP
• RFC822/MIME message builder
• RFC822/MIME message parser
• Maildir
• mbox
• MH

You need to install autoconf, automake and libtool. They can be installed using brew.

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make

You can use flag --with-poll for using poll() instead of select() for checking connection status

$ gcc -c -o sample.o sample.c `pkg-config libetpan --cflags`
$ gcc -o sample sample.o `pkg-config libetpan --libs`

• Download Xcode
• Open build-mac/libetpan.xcodeproj
• Choose the correct target "static libetpan" for Mac or "libetpan ios" for iOS.
• Build

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan.a

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan-ios.a
• Set "Other Linker Flags": -lsasl2

• See README and Visual Studio Solution in build-windows folder

See http://etpan.org/libetpan.html for more information and examples.